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Peach Bavarian Cream

A chilled dessert of peaches, cream, and gelatin set into a smooth custard.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Peach Bavarian Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the peaches

  1. Soak the gelatine in cold water.

  2. Peel and stone the peaches, then chop them finely.

  3. Place the peaches in a small saucepan over low heat, adding a little water if needed, and mash them as they cook until smooth.

  4. Stir in the sugar until dissolved.

  5. Strain the peach mixture through a fine colander to remove lumps.

Make the cream

  1. Add the dissolved gelatine and ½ pint of cream to the peach mixture, stirring well.

  2. Set the mixture aside in a cool place.

  3. Whip the remaining cream until stiff.

  4. Fold the whipped cream into the peach mixture as the gelatine begins to set.

  5. Pour the mixture into a mold.

  6. Refrigerate for 4 hours.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  2. Peach + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,308 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Peach + creamtop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together721 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Peaches
Provide the main fruit flavour and, once mashed, the body of the cream.
Sugar
Sweetens the peach mixture and balances its tartness.
Cream
Adds richness and fat, and whipped, lightens the set dessert.
Gelatine
Sets the mixture so it holds its shape when chilled.

The step that matters

Fold the whipped cream in as the gelatine begins to set. If the gelatine has set too firmly, the whipped cream will not blend evenly and the dessert may be lumpy; if it is still liquid, the cream will deflate and the mixture will not hold its shape.

Swap the peach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, cream):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Raspberryfits better
  4. Peachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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